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This story is rather vague. They'll have to be more specific if they expect to have any credibility with me. I saw someone referring to this story on the news yesterday and using it to argue for a central repository of user information with better security than all the individual sites in use now. Since when is a central repository for all your user data more secure? His argument seemed to scream "ulterior motive."

Quoting:I want to stress something here. LXer is non-political, hence to say anybody is "war mongering" is, I believe, totally out of place in any LXer discussion. That's pure politics and I want no part of it nor do the LXer site rules allow it as a discussion point.

Could not agree more..Linux and FOSS by their nature have had and will continue to have an affect on things of a political nature, but the discussion of anything that has nothing to do with "Linux" itself has no place here. Yes, there have been and will continue to be articles posted on our newswire that have something to do with politics, but not our proponent of or against particular organizations etc..

Quoting: It really is hard to separate politics and Linux, when this article has nothing to do with Linux, but instead is about the US blaming Russia for stolen passwords.

Perhaps you missed it, because the word "Russia" in the article distracted you from the main points?

This article wasn't blaming "Russia", but rather, organized crime -- and the criminal gang involved just happens to be in Russia. The same applies to the linked, original story in the New York times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-sa...
which as well as mentioning a large Vietnamese identity theft operation, also explicitly points out that

Quoting: Websites inside Russia had been hacked, too, and Mr. Holden said he saw no connection between the hackers and the Russian government.

Compare this to the spate of stories we've been seeing about Chinese "hacking", infiltrating systems and stealing information, where it's made pretty clear that the Chinese hackers are more or less explicitly operating under the auspices of the Chinese intelligence services, or the spate of stories about USA hacking, directly by actual US intelligence agencies.

I don't recall a lot of hullabaloo about flogging "propaganda"and "politics" at the expense of pertinent stories, for those...